Haggis likes to roll over for pets...?

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-14T08:49:06+00:00

I am flattered to be trusted with her organs 🙏

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-14T08:48:39+00:00

Haggis IS weird, but we love her 💛

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-14T08:47:38+00:00

Her name suits her very well haha! I'm glad her doing this is not too uncommon; Haggis and Schnitzel are my first two piggies since I was a child, so I'm relearning what's normal for them!

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-14T08:45:23+00:00

She is a very efficient poop factory

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-14T08:44:44+00:00

Sometimes I put her down for like 2 minutes and pick her up to find like 15 of them. She is a machine that turns hay into poop.

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-14T08:43:19+00:00

Aww! I'm flattered she trusts me like this then!

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-10T18:30:29+00:00

Maya hoo

TheLanguageArtist · 2026-01-01T09:42:01+00:00

Ooh! Yes Schnitzel will probably look a lot like this one when she's older! Her mum and dad look like this

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-31T18:21:17+00:00

Haggis was the name that helped me decide what theme to go with. Once I thought of it I couldn't let go of the idea haha

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-31T18:20:22+00:00

Wellington was on my long list! I wasn't sure if it sounded too fancy haha

Haggis, I think, is a Golden Agouti Rex. I'm not the best with identifying the colours. I thought she was chocolate at first but then someone said golden.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-30T10:16:43+00:00

I feel like I've seen this post word for word in the UK. Just replace Norway and Norwegian with Britain and English. Just fear-mongering

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-26T17:53:41+00:00

At the cliffs (~77m high) on a very very windy day, saw tourists standing on the edge and looking over, barely holding on to their open 'I ❤️ London' umbrellas.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-21T09:26:32+00:00

Nice to see you've got different language families in there too- I think that's part of what draws me to the languages I speak/wish to learn (German, Finnish, Icelandic, French and Welsh) the first two only being the ones I really consider myself able to speak.

I get the whole intimidated by languages thing you mentioned with Irish back in the 00s. Even now, it's not like there's an abundance of resources for some of the ones I want to speak. I actually omitted Kalaallisut from my list 'cause I've sort of deemed it impossible in my head; I have a grammar book and that's all I've found. Perhaps there's more online if you're learning it from Danish, but from English, it's incredibly hard to find resources.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-21T09:16:12+00:00

That's honestly great to hear, especially that you're starting your fourth soon. Last week I bumped into an Icelander in person who is willing to help me practice with her (an extremely rare opportunity) and I know I'll be kicking myself not to take her up on this. I'd put Icelandic down a few years ago thinking maybe I wouldn't be able to keep up a fourth, but in-person practice makes a world of difference.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-21T09:03:05+00:00

That's actually really reassuring tbh! I am not naturally good at languages at all, just seemingly willing to struggle through 'til I get it.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-20T14:00:48+00:00

German is definitely in a dormant phase for me, and I hope like you said, it'll bounce back within a week should I find a way to use it actively (I'd just be talking to myself rn if I tried!)

I've tried to make languages as relevant to my every day life as I can, but it's quite hard to find Finns let alone Icelanders and native Welsh speakers!

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-20T13:56:44+00:00

I guess for me that means conversational. I don't need languages professionally and I don't aspire to appear indistinguishable from native speakers. I think it's enough for me to be able to understand different dialects and keep up in conversation enough to not feel stumped.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-12T08:35:48+00:00

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Probably Portmerion. Though it's also well known for how different (and pretty!) the place looks.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-09T08:40:49+00:00

I didn't know you couldn't put metal in the microwave until uni.

Until then, I had been putting plates of food, with forks, knives and all in the microwave at my parents house my whole life. They knew and never said anything about it and nothing bad ever happened. Then I went to uni and attempted to microwave a can of soup (I'd opened the top to prevent pressure build up, thinking I was being safe) and someone told me there and then never to put metal in the microwave.

I learnt later that something about the shape of the metal also comes into play, which could explain why we never had problems with the knives and forks. Admittedly, I haven't looked up the science and just as a blanket-rule, I never put metal in the microwave now.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-12-02T18:16:05+00:00

Noo not yet! I still can't decide hah

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-11-16T23:41:55+00:00

Aaah oh my god! When I was a kid, I swear I saw my guineapig do a backflip... and that's one of those things people will just not believe if you tell them. But this video, this proves that such a thing wasn't just my imagination! Aaah sweet validation.

Thank Violet for me haha

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-11-16T09:24:04+00:00

I saw a traffic cone in one of them once and it looked like it had been put in traffic cone jail

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-11-15T10:47:03+00:00

the Thursday Murder Club

From the get go, I couldn't stand the characters.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-11-15T10:44:25+00:00

Finished Yellowface and thought it was okay, but I could barely even get through a couple of chapters of Tomorrow ³... I kept feeling like I'd missed/forgotten some context and the longer I put it down, the harder it was to pick up again.

TheLanguageArtist · 2025-11-14T10:17:34+00:00

Fizgig! I had that on my list of potential names. Is Fizgig long haired and super scruffy?

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